Top 100 A.A. Milne Quotes
#1. Forever isn't long at all, Christopher, as long as I'm with you.
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#2. He could see the honey, he could smell the honey, but he couldn't quite reach the honey.
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#3. Honey or condensed milk with your bread?" he was so excited that he said, "Both," and then, so as not to seem greedy, he added, "but don't bother about the bread, please.
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#4. Chess has this in common with making poetry; that the desire for it comes upon the amateur in gusts.
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#5. You mean Piglet. The little fellow with the excited ears. That's Piglet.
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#6. Before beginning a Hunt, it is wise to ask someone what you are looking for before you begin looking for it.
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#7. I knew when I met you an adventure was going to happen.
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#8. If there's a buzzing-noise, somebody's making a buzzing-noise, and the only reason for making a buzzing-noise that I know of is because you're a bee.
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#9. Well, you both went out with the blue balloon, and you took your gun with you, just in case, as you always did,
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#10. I do remember, and then when I try to remember, I forget.
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#11. WHERE did you say it was?' asked Pooh.
Just here,' said Eeyore.
Made of sticks?'
Yes'
Oh!' said Piglet.
What?' said Eeyore.
I just said "Oh!"' said Piglet nervously. And so as to seem quite at ease he hummed Tiddely-pom once or twice in a what-shall-we-do-now kind of way.
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#12. Turn around, Piglet. Step lightly, Pooh. This silly ol' dance is perfect for two.
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#13. Eighteen pockets in one suit? I haven't the time.
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#14. I don't feel very much like Pooh today," said Pooh.
"There there," said Piglet. "I'll bring you tea and honey until you do.
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#15. What do you say, Pooh?"
Pooh opened his eyes with a jerk and said, "Extremely."
"Extremely what?" asked Rabbit.
"What you were saying," said Pooh. "Undoubtably.
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#16. If ever there is a tomorrow when we're not together there is something you must always remember ...
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#17. Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.
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#18. Something feels funny. I must be thinking too hard.
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#19. I suppose this is the reason why diaries are so rarely kept nowadays- that nothing ever happens to anybody.
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#20. HIPY PAPY BTHUTHDTH THUTHDA BTHUTHDY. Pooh
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#21. War is something of man's own fostering, and if all mankind renounces it, then it is no longer there.
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#22. From what I've read of detective stories, inspectors always do want to drag the pond first.
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#23. I always did whatever I liked," she said, "but now I really can do it.
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#24. If you want to make a song more hummy, add a few tiddely poms.
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#25. [A] quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business.
(The Record Lie)
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#26. Are you prepared to have quite
obvious things explained to you, to ask futile questions, to give me
chances of scoring off you, to make brilliant discoveries of your own
two or three days after I have made them myself all that kind of thing?
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#27. To the uneducated an A is just three sticks.
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#28. Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?
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#29. She would know a good thing to do without thinking about it.
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#30. As soon as I saw you I knew a grand adventure was about to happen.
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#31. But, of course, it isn't really Good-bye, because the Forest will always be there ... and anybody who is Friendly with Bears can find it.
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#32. What I say is that, if a fellow really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.
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#33. If you were a cloud, and sailed up there, You'd sail on water as blue as air, And you'd see me here in the fields and say: 'Doesn't the sky look green today?
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#34. For I am a bear of very little brain, and long words bother me.
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#35. Whatever his weight in pounds and ounces, he always seems bigger because of his bounces.
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#36. It is a terrible thing for an author to have a lot of people running about his book without any invitation from him at all.
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#37. Is 'The Wind in the Willows' a children's book? Is 'Alice in Wonderland?' Is 'Treasure Island?' These are masterpieces which we read with pleasure as children, but with how much more pleasure when we are grown-up.
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#38. One of the advantages of being disorganized is that one is always having surprising discoveries.
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#39. It is impossible to win gracefully at chess. No man has yet said "Mate!" in a voice which failed to sound to his opponent bitter, boastful and malicious.
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#40. But now I am six. And I'm clever as clever. And now I think I'll stay six now forever and ever.
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#41. I suppose that every one of us hopes secretly for immortality; to leave, I mean, a name behind him which will live forever in this world, whatever he may be doing, himself, in the next.
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#42. Well, if you listen, Piglet, you'll hear it."
"How do you know I'm not listening?" Pooh couldn't answer that one, so he began to sing.
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#43. Mind over matter, will make the Pooh unfatter.
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#44. A Fly can't bird, but a bird can fly.
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#45. Some have brains, and some haven't, ... and there it is.
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#46. For some time now Pooh had been saying "Yes" and "No" in turn, with his eyes shut, to all that Owl was saying, and having said, "Yes, yes," last time, he said "No, not at all," now, without really knowing what Owl was talking about.
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#47. I was walking along looking for somebody, and then suddenly I wasn't anymore.
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#48. I did know once, only I've sort of forgotten.
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#49. Wherever they go, and whatever happens to them on the way, in that enchanted place on the top of the forest, a little boy and his Bear will always be playing.
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#50. Hallo, Rabbit," he said, "is that you?"
"Let's pretend it isn't," said Rabbit, "and see what happens.
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#51. Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.
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#52. And I'd say to myself as I looked so lazily down at the sea:
There's nobody else in the world, and the world was made for me.
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#53. Do go and see, Owl. Because Pooh hasn't got very much brain, and he might do something silly, and I do love him so, Owl. Do you see, Owl?
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#54. If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.
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#55. Drinking your milk and talking at the same time may result in your having to be patted on the back and dried for quite a long time afterwords.
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#56. Ideas may drift into other minds, but they do not drift my way. I have to go and fetch them. I know no work manual or mental to equal the appalling heart-breaking anguish of fetching an idea from nowhere.
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#57. You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.
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#58. If you stop painting policemen in order to paint windmills, criticism remains so overpoweringly policeman-conscious that even a windmill is seen as something with arms out, obviously directing the traffic.
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#59. For one person who dreams of making fifty thousand pounds, a hundred people dream of being left fifty thousand pounds.
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#60. In the drowsy heat of the summer afternoon the Red House was taking its siesta. There was a lazy murmur of bees in the flower-borders, a gentle cooing of pigeons in the tops of the elms. From
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#61. Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in our hearts.
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#62. I do remember,' explained Christopher Robin, 'only Pooh doesn't very well, so that's why he likes having it told to him again. Because then it's a real story and not just a remembering.
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#63. It gets you nowhere if the other person's tail is only just in sight for the second half of the conversation.
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#64. Piglet opened the letter box and climbed in. Then, having untied himself, he began to squeeze into the slit, through which in the old days when front doors were front doors, many an unexpected letter than WOL had written to himself, had come slipping.
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#65. Friendship," said Christopher Robin, "is a very comforting thing to have.
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#66. Why does a silly bird go on saying "chiff-chaff" all day long? Is it happiness or hiccups?
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#67. They wanted to come in after the pounds", explained Pooh, "so I let them. It's the best way to write poetry, letting things come.
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#68. Bores can be divided into two classes; those who have their own particular subject, and those who do not need a subject.
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#69. Love is taking a few steps backward, maybe even more ... to give way to the happiness of the person you love.
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#70. Eeyore, the old grey donkey, stood by the side of the stream and looked at himself in the water. "Pathetic," he said. "That's what it is. Pathetic."
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#71. The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief - call it what you will - than any book ever written. It has emptied more churches than all the counter-attractions of cinema, motor-bicycle and golf course.
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#72. No one can tell me, Nobody knows, Where the wind comes from, Where the wind goes.
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#73. When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.
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#74. Don't talk anybody, don't come near! Can't you see the fish might hear? He thinks I'm playing with a piece of string; He thinks I'm another sort of funny thing, But he doesn't know I'm fishing - He doesn't know I'm fishing. That's what I'm doing - Fishing.
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#76. When I was young, we always had mornings like this.
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#77. It's your fault, Eeyore. You've never been to see any of us. You just stay here in this one corner of the Forest waiting for the others to come to you. Why don't you go to THEM sometimes?
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#78. The more he looked inside the more Piglet wasn't there.
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#79. Here I am in the dark alone, What is it going to be? I can think whatever I like to think, I can play whatever I like to play, I can laugh whatever I like to laugh, There's nobody here but me.
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#80. In the quiet hours when we are alone and there is nobody to tell us what fine fellows we are, we come sometimes upon a moment in which we wonder, not how much money we are earning, nor how famous we have become, but what good we are doing.
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#81. He was telling an interesting anecdote full of exciting words like "encyclopedia" and "rhododendron".
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#82. Pooh felt that he ought to say something helpful about it, but didn't quite know what.
So he decided to do something helpful instead.
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#83. You gave me Christopher Robin, and then
You breathed new life in Pooh.
Whatever of each has left my pen
Goes homing back to you.
My book is ready, and comes to greet
The mother it longs to see
It would be my present to you, my sweet,
If it weren't your gift to me.
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#84. Oh, Eeyore, you are wet! said Piglet, feeling him.
Eeyore shook himself, and asked somebody to explain to Piglet what happened when you had been inside a river for quite a long time.
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#85. The things that make me different are the things that make me.
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#86. Then would you read a Sustaining Book, such as would help and comfort a Wedged Bear in Great Tightness.
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#87. When speaking to a Bear of Very Little Brain, remember that long words may bother him.
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#88. Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.
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#89. Owl explained about the Necessary Dorsal Muscles. He had explained this to Pooh and Christopher Robin once before and had been waiting for a chance to do it again, because it is a thing you can easily explain twice before anybody knows what you are talking about.
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#92. But it's always useful to know where a friend-and-relation is, whether you want him or whether you don't.
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#93. Always watch where you are going. Otherwise, you may step on a piece of the Forest that was left out by mistake.
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#94. When you are pretty sure that an Adventure is going to happen, brush the honey off your nose and spruce yourself up as best you can, so as to look Ready for Anything.
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#95. What day is it?"
It's today," squeaked Piglet.
My favorite day," said Pooh.
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#96. In a very little time they got to the corner of the field by the side of the pine wood where Eeyore's house wasn't any longer.
'There!' said Eeyore. 'Not a stick of it left! Of course, I've still got all this snow to do what I like with. One mustn't complain.
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#97. Come, come, come. Without a monster or two it's not a quest, merely a gaggle of friends wandering about.
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#98. I do like a little bit of butter to my bread.
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#99. Non apibus dubitandem est.
(You never can tell with bees.)
~ Winnie ille Pu
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#100. Don't underestimate the value of doing nothing, of just going along, listening to all the thing you can't hear, and not bothering.
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